CVEvulnerability

CVE-2019-15916

7.5 HIGH Published 2019-09-04 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2019-09-04
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.8 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-401

Description

An issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.0.1. There is a memory leak in register_queue_kobjects() in net/core/net-sysfs.c, which will cause denial of service.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (>= 2.6.38 < 3.16.70) • linux linux kernel (>= 3.17 < 3.18.137) • linux linux kernel (>= 3.19 < 4.4.177) • linux linux kernel (>= 4.5 < 4.9.163) • linux linux kernel (>= 4.10 < 4.14.106) • linux linux kernel (>= 4.15 < 4.19.28) • linux linux kernel (>= 4.20 < 4.20.15) • linux linux kernel (>= 5.0 < 5.0.1)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-401 Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime weakness

References